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This week I would like to propose something that may be new to you, but before I do I have to explain a little about who I am and the path I have followed to get here.
I am a life coach and I was first drawn into this world during my years at Secondary School. People would often ask me to give them my thoughts and advice about things that were bothering them. These ranged from things in their day to day life to relationships to romance, and as I grew older these patterns continued and still do today.
Despite my personal life being something of a financial train wreck (not so much now I hasten to add!) people still turned to me for some guidance on personal matters and matters of the heart. This is something that still continues to this day.
As a result of this I decided that it could be a useful service to offer on a more structured basis and so I enrolled on a course that provided me with a certificate in basic Counselling Skills. By this time I was also a meditation leader, a Crystal Healer and a member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healers. The learning continued with a course in formal study for which I was awarded a Diploma In Life Coaching followed by a number of years building my practice that I styled "Altered Image Coaching"!
Since then I have added more to my "Coaching Toolkit" and am now trained in Mindfulness, Goal Setting, Dementia Awareness, Suicide Awareness and more lately Reiki (gaining my Masters approximately 4 years ago).
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However, recently I have been thinking that maybe there could be a different approach, one that leads to the same ultimate destination but uses a somewhat easier route!
The best way to describe this (and this in no way decries or takes away from the Goal Setting work that I have been using for many years) is to use an analogy of "getting from A to B"
Let us say for example that I want to travel to London........... I could set off from my home at 6am and drive the 220 mile journey in one hit and that would take me approximately 4.5 hours..
However, that journey could leave me mentally tired and perhaps I would not be able to provide my client(s) the service they should reasonably be entitled nor may I be giving them the best advice. So I started to look at alternatives................
What would happen if I broke down the journey into smaller steps?
So I began to think about how I could do this............and as my theory began to unfold it looked like this:-
Step 1 Drive from Ilfracombe - Tiverton 43 miles 1hour
Step 2 Comfort Break 15 minutes
Step 3 Drive from Tiverton - Bristol 68 miles 1.5 hours
Step 4 Coffee break 15 to 20 minutes
Step 5 Drive from Bristol - London 117.8 miles 2.5 hours
This would mean that by taking the 5 step approach the journey might be an hour longer but you would reach your destination much more relaxed and better able to work - which in turn would produce better results.
So now let us transpose this into daily life
You can set a goal - such as you will achieve something at the end of the day - this may look like a monumental task and if you go straight for it as in the first example there is every possibility you would miss the target completely.
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If you adopt the more measured break it down approach you will be able to celebrate small accomplishments along the way and eventually reach the intended result.
In conclusion I contend that setting smaller goals and achieving them will enable you to get to the same place more easily and probably in a far less stressed manner.
DAve
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I hold qualifications in each of the following disciplines:-
Life Coaching (Honours Diploma)
Music Therapy (Diploma)
Crystal Therapy (Practioner)
Reiki (Practitioner)
Dementia Awareness
In addition to the above I am compiling a series of short videos that will provide an
Introduction To Mindfulness
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